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Cebuano language


Name	Cebuano
Nativename	Bisaya, Sugbuanon
Familycolor	Austronesian
States	Philippines
Region	Southeast Asia (Central Visayas and Mindanao)
Speakers	About 20 million people and the second most spoken language in the Philippines.
Fam2	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3	Philippine
Fam4	Central Philippine
Fam5	Visayan
Dia1	Cebuano
Dia2	Boholano
Dia3	Leytehanon
Dia4	Mindanao Visayan
Script	Latin (Cebuano)
Nation	Regional language in the Philippines.
Agency	Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Iso2	ceb
Iso3	ceb
Notice	IPA

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Cebuano is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people. It is the most widely spoken member of the Visayan languages; a language closely related to other Filipino languages, and Malay and Indonesian. It has the largest native language speaking population of the Philippines despite not being taught formally in schools and universities. It is the lingua franca of the Central Visayas and Mindanao. Cebuano is given the ISO 639-2 three letter code ceb, but has no ISO 639-1 two-letter code.

Cebuano is usually referred to simply as Bisaya.

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